I am modeling the symbol of the "Departure of Precrime" from Minority Report.
Therefor I need to know, how I can model a text aound a circle. The Letters "Departure of Precrime - Destrict of Columbia" have to follow the red arrow in the picture below.

That's the only way I can think of... you could try to use deformers, perhaps, such as the bend deformer, but I don't think it would bend it in a complete circle and not warp the text some. The only other thing I can think of, is to perhaps create the text, make it all one object, attach it to a motion path, make it flow path object and see if it looks right...

Yeah, thanks for the tipp. I also though about an animation path, but I wasn't able to manage it with the text. But I think it looks right now with my method...
You can see the final result in the "Finished Work" Section...
And please tell me if you know the original font

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